I attended the Soils and Manure Management Field Workshop on Friday and learned quite a bit. A lot of the research that was shown is still in the early stages, so there will be a lot of good stuff to follow in years to come. Here are some of the highlights: Don Flaten and Clay [...]
It’s a little bit late for this year, but Bruce Barker had a good article in Top Crop Manager about why you should only Tank-mix cereal herbicides and fungicides with caution. Even on a wet year such as this one, the optimum timing for herbicide and fungicide effectiveness are quite different. This was discussed at [...]
I ended up attending the 2010 Crop Diagnostic School a week earlier than planned. There was a lot of stuff to see and learn. Here are some of the highlights. John Heard had his nutrient deficiency planters out again. One of them was a trick question – herbicide drift rather than a nutrient deficiency. The [...]
I found the post The Diagnostic Process and Helping the Lab Help You very interesting. We often send samples to the Diagnostic Lab so it’s interesting to see what they do with the samples.
Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School kicked off yesterday and I’m looking forward to attending next week. It never ceases to amaze me how much there is to learn about agriculture, even though humanity has been growing crops for thousands of years. One of the things that I appreciate about the Crop Diagnostic School is how intensely [...]
Manitoba Agriculture used to provide Sclerotinia Risk maps for Manitoba. Unfortunately due to budget cuts they are no longer able to provide that service. The current best source for Sclerotinia maps in Manitoba is the Canadian Wheat Board’s Weatherfarm service. To find the Sclerotinia maps log in (register first if you haven’t already) – it’s [...]
With more and more of the Prairies going underwater, some farmers are wondering what the effects of all this water will be on the fertilizer they applied on their fields. I did some looking around and found a couple of good articles on estimating nitrogen losses on flooded fields. The MAFRI article, Impact Of Flooding [...]
This last week it’s continued to rain on and off, so mostly I’ve been in the office updating our spring records. On the bright side, we’ve already seen some canola flowering so there’s still hope!
Turns out I spoke too soon in my last post. We scouted some fields in the Interlake region yesterday and they looked like swimming pools. The water on the fields is a concern, but the bigger concern is that there’s nowhere for it to god. Most of the culverts that I saw were 3/4 full [...]
Things are fairly quiet right now as we do the crop scouting, identify potential problem pests, and make spray recommendations. So far we’ve been lucky in that our clients haven’t been flooded out by the massive amounts of precipitation we’ve received here. The crops are growing beautifully and we’re keeping an eye on them.
